Hello,
I recently received a error message from GNU info on a computer without
the gunzip binary installed. While fixing this error, I noticed automake
introduces in every package using automake the same dependency that
provoked the error in GNU info.
As gunzip is a link to gzip, the only difference between using "gunzip"
and "gzip -d" is that the former adds a gratuitous dependency on the
gunzip name.
Could you, please, apply the attached patch whose only effect is
removing the dependency of Makefile.in on the "gunzip" name?
Regards,
Antonio.
diff -urdN automake-1.11.orig/lib/am/distdir.am automake-1.11/lib/am/distdir.am
--- automake-1.11.orig/lib/am/distdir.am 2009-05-17 15:19:30.000000000
+0200
+++ automake-1.11/lib/am/distdir.am 2009-10-22 13:38:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@
distcheck: dist
case '$(DIST_ARCHIVES)' in \
*.tar.gz*) \
- GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gunzip -c $(distdir).tar.gz | $(am__untar) ;;\
+ GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -cd $(distdir).tar.gz | $(am__untar) ;;\
*.tar.bz2*) \
bunzip2 -c $(distdir).tar.bz2 | $(am__untar) ;;\
*.tar.lzma*) \
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
*.tar.Z*) \
uncompress -c $(distdir).tar.Z | $(am__untar) ;;\
*.shar.gz*) \
- GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gunzip -c $(distdir).shar.gz | unshar ;;\
+ GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -cd $(distdir).shar.gz | unshar ;;\
*.zip*) \
unzip $(distdir).zip ;;\
esac
